– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?
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On top of what others explained, there’s a base 10 unit of measurement and a base 2 system, the standard kilo/mega/giga/tera is a base 10 system
The 1,024 is on the kibibytes, mebibyte, gibibbyte, tebibyte etc which is the binary byte system (for example kibibyte stands for Kilo Binary Byte)
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